Guild Wars 2

I would say that this is probably an exploit if you’re able to kill the champ, deliberately fail the personal story, and then re-kill the champ. There’s a specific e-mail address for exploits at:
exploits@arena.net

In the meantime, as people have noted, don’t try it. It’s so easy to run around in the Pavilion or along a path out in the world that spawns even more champs that it’s not worth risking your acct over.

I hate Trahearne, it’s true, I do.
I hate his talk.
I hate his walk.
I hate his everything.

I remember reading this thread and thought that I’d already posted re: my intense hatred of Trahearne, but I couldn’t find my post. So here goes:

The most important rule of storytelling is show, not tell.

Things told and not shown in game (as a non-sylvari):
Trahearne is the most knowledgeable person re: Orr
Trahearne has a good working relationship with the orders.
Trahearne has leadership experience and problem solving skills.
Trahearne is a powerful fighter (especially after acquiring the sword Caladbog).
Trahearne’s personal quest is to cleanse Orr and he has after two and a half decades of ??? suddenly developed the ability to do so.
The various orders are crippled by infighting (admittedly some of this is shown in game, but I would have appreciated actual conflict between the orders, more infighting / sniping at each other).

Shown in game:
A man with no personal charisma.
A man who is followed but who seems incapable of true leadership.
A stranger that makes me his second in command even though we’ve just met and I am closely affiliated with one order above the other two (indicating partiality re: one order above the others).
A man that fails to trust me (because he doesn’t actually know me) when Mesmer magic makes it look like I’ve done something terrible.
A Sylvari who’s motivations and history boil down to – ‘I am my mission’.

Trahearne is unable to connect to the playerbase because he is not a character, he’s a plot device. Depth of story and characterization require him to have flaws, history, and struggle — BEYOND the role that he’s been chosen to play, ie the cleansing of Orr. Ultimately he lacks all of them.

Ellen Keil, Rox/Brahm and even Lord Faren are far more effective characters and I’m happy to see that the game is progressing away from the Trahearne model. While I’m looking forward to seeing more about Marjory and Lady Kasmeer & el, I would still love to see additional conflict and drama in game.

Out of all of your characters I would have to say that I appreciate Logan’s place in the world the most. I love the way that other characters (notably Rytlock & Countess Anise) respond to and about Logan in game. I love that he’s more than a little bit arrogant, and also that he’s fairly unlikable due to his rigid code of conduct and his feelings about Jennah (who is way too young for him btw). It definitely gives me the sense of a dynamic world where the NPCs have thoughts and feelings of their own. I would love to see additional characters hatreds and loves show a little better, even if it’s just NPCs gossiping about them.

BobbyStein.2315:

This is partially true. It’s very expensive to voice the player since it costs 10x (or more in some cases, since some actors are paid above scale depending on ability, availability, etc.) for each line recorded. We also have moved away from using cinematic conversations (the two-shot close ups) which were the primary delivery system of PC VO. Outside of the painterly cinematics and PC chatter (the stuff that’s automatically triggered when you’re low on health, suffering from conditions, leveling up, etc.) we don’t have proper control of triggering PC lines. It’s a technical issue that’s partly tied to having multiple PCs in a party.

So, while we can certainly solve these technical hurdles in the future we currently don’t have support for PC lines outside of the conditions listed above. And considering the fact that PC lines are shared across all races and genders, it doesn’t leave a lot of flexibility for making each PC talk differently. We are considering other ways to let players express themselves in the game through choice (actions, unspoken conversations, etc.), though those discussions are ongoing. Will the player speak in the future? Probably, but how and where are still under debate.

If player feedback helps, I don’t mind unspoken conversation options or actions. IN many ways I prefer them. Although I enjoyed the cinematic conversations of the personal story, they never particularly invested me in my character. They felt more like a movie than something that belonged to me. I’m sure that other people will feel much differently, but I prefer to make up what my character is saying myself. That said, if you ever add more personal story steps, I do think that you should continue in the style that you started with — simply because it would feel strange for new players to have the story style change drastically once you’re done with the Orr story.

Speaking of stories though, I enjoy reading in-game or out. I always read quest text, in game books/item text, and lore stories too. I rarely read ‘my own’ in-game responses because I prefer to dream up what my character is saying (hence my ambivalence re: the personal stories). I’d like to see the charm/ferocity/dignity be more meaningful in game because it’s a cool idea, but having multiple conversation options ultimately fulfills the same purpose and is just as satisfying because being a Diplomat doesn’t seem to do anything for me ingame.

If you’re looking for ways to make the unvoiced conversations be more visible it might be nice to have a standard emote from NPCs that have conversation options to encourage people to actually try to talk to them (eg like the “Could I have a moment” voiced text that some characters say when you go past them).

I’ve read a lot of posts about getting more of the lore or background for the story ingame. I would love to see backstories be brought into the game after a living story completes as books in / journals / newspapers in an archive room at the Durmond Priory. I’m sure that many of us would even volunteer to put the material in that format if someone at ArenaNet would be willing to create a library. After the library is coded in it might take an hour a week to read through submissions and then another hour to plop any decent ones in. They could contain historical essays (ie GW1 campaign stuff) and modern material (a write up about each living story campaign after it ends). It would be the perfect place for creative community members to come together and build something really impressive. Actually, I’d just love to see the Orrator as an ingame news sheet, maybe just hire him instead.

Ultimately, for as many people that don’t read in the game, there are a surprising number that seem to find out about the things that are said in-game from sources outside of the game (fan sites, the wiki, reddit). I wonder sometimes whether using ingame metrics to figure out whether people like flavor text and lore are accurate. I’ve never watched a dungeon cutscene ingame (because my group always wants to get going) but I’ve watched them all at my leisure on youtube. I didn’t stand around in front of each of the singing NPCs at the Labynthine Cliffs to find their full song, but I’ve watched the user compiled full song quite a few times (and I enjoyed that they did spontaneously burst into song while I was playing). And once I’ve read a text or quest prompt, I tend to not read them again (unless it’s Tybalt… because… Tybalt), because I remember what the NPC said (although I have checked to see if some say different things at different times, and am always excited when I find some that do change their conversations depending on my character’s personal story, race choices, or whether I’ve just helped our with an event (I’d love to see more of that btw).

Thanks in advance!

A minipet equip slot would be great! I never use any of my 40+ minipets because it’s too awkward to keep them up.

As an additional boon, it would be particularly nice if the minipet could actually keep up with me so that I could see it when I run rather than it always trailing so far behind that I never actually get to see and enjoy it.

How is it a lie that there are now additional places to get Ascended Gear?

There used to be one place (doing fractals) now there are two (laurels and fractals). Two is more than one. They have done the precise opposite of concentrating it.

Even with the largest PTR in the world World of Warcraft still releases with bugs every.single.patch often really huge and annoying ones relating to something breaking in the classes or a quest or two not functioning because an NPC gets stuck, however, because they don’t do one time events the frame of reference shifts. When it’s going to be out for months players can just come back and do the quest or raid later. If it’s fixed in a week (or less) out of a 3-18 month patch it’s like it never happened.

Just in the last few months there was a DK bug that allowed people to kill players of their own faction and wipe out cities. It was patched quickly – within 12 hours – just like the bugged NPCs here. But people tend to forget about the little bugs like that which pervade WoW (or the larger ones in the Secret World or the ones that are happening now with Rift’s Storm Legion) because the time between new content and old is so much larger.

Halloween went off extremely well but there were some issues – most of which were resolved in this patch.

What they need to do now is the same thing that they probably did while the last patch was happening namely — sit down and take a hard look at their process and code and make a set of best practices going forward.

In the end the discovery aspect and figuring it out with everyone together is worth more than having everyone post in /map or /g what we’re supposed to be doing because they already know from ptr.

TDLR; No, lets see if they can fix their live events first.

I’d written out a nice long post that apparently got lost when they merged the threads. The tdlr was:

I do not like this and I can’t see how this will not lead to the endless treadmilling effect but I will tentatively withhold judgement. I currently play this game exclusively, and I’ve played it slowly because I had thought that the developers were not going to be initiating a power creep.

If I’d wanted to play a game with endless power progression and tiered endgame gear I’ll go back to playing the game that does that best, which incidentally is not GW2.

Krosslite.1950:

hmmm thanks for the input, but this sentence doesn’t make any sense.

but still thanks for the added input

How does it not make sense? He said that they schedule 1 time events for the times when the most players are on. Basically – they look to see when their users are the most active — ie when most of them are on and they schedule events for that time. It’s a direct response to the OP who was asking for them to be ‘spaced out’ differently. Ie scheduled at different times.

It doesn’t make sense to schedule things at other times when (globally) the largest amount of players is on at noon pst over any given weekend.

I love that they schedule these 1 time events. Does it suck that I can’t be on for all of them? Sure, but I’m so happy that they’re happening and that GW2 seems like a living dynamic world because of them.

I don’t know if I’ve had more fun in the game than dumping water on Willy listening to hours of ridiculously hilarious Whale puns and randomly chatting with pro and anti-whalers.

It sure would be nice to be able to push them back into the water at some point though. I’ve been giving a beach instability excuse, but I don’t think that anyyone’s buying it. It would be a shame to have kept them alive so long for nothing (<.< if dumping water on them IS even keeping them alive).

I’ve mained a Mesmer since launch and I’ve got to say that I love it. Yeah, mob tagging in the super zergs in Orr kinda sucks, but even then it’s not awful. And if you ever find yourself separated from the pack you’ve got good survivability. I can often solo Champions in lower level content and almost always solo veterans (although there are two in Orr that just wipe the floor with me :P).

I would guess that the new guild that we’re supposed to fight made up a large portion of those events along with the skritt burgler/chest events.

Both the rabbits and the fire opal DEs have been there since the beginning, with the rabbits happening less frequently than the fire opal one. BTW – the Fire Opal one is linked to other events, follow them out to watch the golems battle. Eventually there will be a battle royal / transformers / power ranger type fight which is actually really awesome

I wonder if the events around the new mini-dungeon counted in the thirty as well… I haven’t found any new events – but I also wasn’t at 100% when the patch hit, so I might have run into a couple without realising it. . . the Wiki lists every DE (or at least they’re trying to) you can check each event that you encounter against that to see if you can find it. Also in the :talk: there might be some discussion about which events were added and when. If there’s not then we should probably all get to work

(edited – forgot to add the word skritt in the first sentance)

I love doing the events still. They’re crazy fun. Sometimes I go and do events in zones that I’ve fully completed that I’ve enjoyed in the past and other times I go into zones that I haven’t completed and simply wander around looking for whatever turns up.

Whenever I get the notification that there’s an event nearby I still drop what I’m doing and run for it no matter what the zone.

Sadly the only place that I can’t actually do this is in Orr (only because it’s just not fun to play solo there) — when I get close to the zergs there respawn rates are too high and when I get away from them there’s no one around to play with, only farmers wandering for node to node :/

I gave up on the Clock Tower – I tried a couple of times on different days, had fun until I started getting frustrated with myself or laggy, but I never did get to finish it. Presumably it’ll be around next year to try again – and I’ll manage to fail similarly. I’m so very very glad that it wasn’t necessary to get the title and that I was able to pretty much ignore it unless I felt like some good ol’ fashioned fun dying to the corrosive stomach acid of a million Tyrian children hopped up on player mined candy corn.

As for the Mad King Dungeon, I thought that it was amazinglingly awesome!!! It was the most fun holiday dungeon experience that I’ve ever had (of course I still died due to falling alot – okay, honesty time – I think it was every time… I suck at jumping LOL). I loved that Mad King Thorn would jump down to the different levels, I loved the mechanics of the fight itself – especially the Mad King says and the scare crows. It was just crazy fun. The graphic elements were lovely as well – I would have been happy to simply stay there hanging out if I’d had more time in game to do it. I just wish that I hadn’t missed two days of it because of Sandy :/ I would have like to run it a few more times.

I loved it too – my guildies and I had a blast running throught it. It was really quick and fun with decent rewards.

I can’t wait to see what they come up with for us next either

It’s not a one time event. Only the cut scene was. The dungeon is repeatable every day.

The rewards are the popup with 26 silver and Karma + a chest to open.

People in my group got some rares, I got a dye pack which had 7 dyes and some greens. All in all I thought it was great fun and I’m going to do it again tomorrow.

Cancer, thank you so much – I’m not the OP but I came here looking for this very answer after checking the customer support pages. I wish that I could +1 you

I hope that they update the Customer Support QA search to add this. I was at 9/10 and not recieving e-mails, but as soon as I deleted another one they started showing up.

Edited – apparently I can +1 you – but only after I replied? I hate Internet Explorer. I’ve been having problems with the forums and seeing the +1 since the day that they opened :/

It sounds like you do enjoy pet classes. Why not try a Ranger traited heavily into survivability and damage? You’ll need to play with different pets to identify which will work better for your playstyle – but there are several ‘tanky/healy’ options.

With certain weapons instead of kiting you’ll simply have a 1 click ‘spring backwards’ (or jump around to the back of your current enemy) that you can use in conjunction with forcing your pet to attack the new enemy allowing you to simply stand and fire for the most part. You’ll just need to be a lot more aware of your surroundings to make sure that you’re not springing back or forward into a worse mess (because targetting works in large part with the direction that you’re firing in addtion to the specific target that you’re firing at – so it can be easy to pull additional mobs if you’re not paying attention.

Yes, some armors come with runes and if you try to gem them it will destroy the rune that they came with. It can be very confusing.

They’re Rare quality.

You can always buy the order set and use it as a skin on an exotic set.

Bleed stacks in intensity, not duration.

(So do confusion and vulnerability for future reference, the rest stack in duration)

I can only tell you the way that it works for me as an example (not using real item names):

Recieve item: Strong epaulets of Dwayna (Minor rune of Dwayna already on the shoulders)

Craft or Buy another Minor rune of Dwayna

Add the second Minor rune of Dwayna to the leggings (while you’re wearing them).

Now it should list you as having 2/2 as long as you’re wearing both articles of clothing.

Lets say that you then add the rune of Dwayna to two other pieces of clothing – that’s when you’ll see the Red stacking 4/2 – meaning that it’s applied too many times and that you’re simply not benefitting anymore (I believe, someone else can confirm since this last bit might be wrong).

Hope this helps you figure out whether you’re seeing a bug or not. I couldn’t from your description since it sounded like you could have been taking the item off or adding the second rune on top of the first.

This is a wonderful addition.

Will it mean that I might miss out on some really incredibly cool things? Or that the whole mystery will be solved before I can get in the game? Yes.

So what? I miss things IRL, all the time. I’m sure that they’ll try to make the live events last as long as humanly possible. I’m really curious about which tools they’ll use for them – hopefully there will be a ton of different types so that everyone will have a chance to have a favorite type (although I guess that means that there will be a lot that are hated too — aahhhhh! runs in fear of the qq).

Regardless, I’m exicited about them any way that I can get it. I enjoy my daily life (with it’s randomly respawning DEs such as showering, dressing, working, gaming) but I really love it when the the evening is disrupted by a Heron stopping by and knocking on the door. I’m sure that these live events will do the same for my game world

You can send information about exploits to exploits@arena.net

I’m using Internet Explorer (IE9.0.8112.16450), about 50% of the time when I load a page +1 won’t load. I believe that it is because it’s tagged as unsecured content. Occasionally it takes several refreshes to appear.

Sorry if this has been posted, a quick search within the forum didn’t pull anything up.

This is an awesome idea and sorely needed.

I’m confused, if you love arenajunkies, why not use them?
http://www.arenajunkies.com/news/509-guild-wars-2-now-featured-on-arena-junkies/

The one that Laeir mentioned bothers me the most. She absolutely drives me batty – it seems like she shouts every time that someone walks by or is in range.

It would also be nice if the Herald didn’t try to shout at me on every single character tht hasn’t gotten a craft yet. I know that it’s nice to think that everyone will want to craft on every character, but honestly… I don’t know that I will and sometimes it takes me to endgame to decide what crafts I do want to have.

Other than that the others don’t particularly bother me (even the greets).

The DE’s in some zones are based on Failure rather than success — for instance in one zone the centaurs are supposed to be able to overrun the entire zone — however we keep succeeding at driving them off to the point of extinction causing the same two events to cycle as they try to ‘take back’ their land and fail.

The issue really is that there are too many of us and we keep winning. It’s sad really because there are probably some amazing stories of failure and surving to push back against the odds that we’re just missing in it’s entirety.

Some aren’t like this – ie the shadow behemouth — but many many of the meta event chains seem to be based on players not really being there to stop (or failing at) events… I love seeing/playing and interacting with other players, but I sure do wish that they’d go away sometimes so that I could heroically save the day and drive those rotten beasts back across the entire zone — leading my people to victory in the affected regions (Gendarran Fields and Queensdale are definitely affected by this, and I believe that many other places are as well).

I typically report them when it happens as bugs:

I include the event name, the timing of the event (if I had run past it and still received credit vs not even being aware that there had been an event nearby) and my location during the past X minutes (ie for events that I’d previously participated and knew that they only last less than 10 minutes I"ll only state what I’d been doing immediately prior, for ones that take far longer I’ll give activity up to an hour or two previous) just in case any of it is useful to the Devs to fix it

Hope this helps you.

Have you tried to put the items that you’d like to craft into your inventory from the bank tab?

Although you can craft directly from your bank from the production tab, you cannot do so using the discovery tab (they’re working on figuring out a way to do so).

I’m drowing in butter and eggs, I don’t know how it’s happened, but I seem to get more of it than any sane person should need. I would gladly trade butter, eggs and jute for materials that I could actually use — tiny claws, shiny scales, little vials of blood, itty bitty shards of bone, but no, they’re practically worthless in comparison on the trading post sigh. Obviously the secret is not to want it – then you shall drown in butter and eggs!!

On a more serious note, I have real suggestion for you. Head to Divinities Reach, walk out of the door go down the small hill (but not across the bridge) make a left, keep walking past the keep (not up to the graveyard or into the keep where the centaurs are). You will find bandits in a cave/dwelling at the bottom of the hill near the keep – it’s slightly hidden it’ll be on the left, clear out the whole thing = butter & other high demand low level crafting mats, then your path for eggs is up to you choose your own adventure style – you can go kill drakes waiting for the shadow behemouth or moa while waiting for the centaur events or simply just roam around getting completionon the map while exploring. I’ve spent hours there and feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface of the zone because I usually find at least one new area of event every time I visit (then again, I don’t do this every night – it would probably drive me mad – only once or twice a week).

Pump up your magic find through food consumables and run around enjoying the DE’s in the higher level zones, you should definitely recieve rares and you might even pick up a usable exotic or two.

Even if the gear that you find isn’t ideal for you, you should be able to barter for gear that is within your guild or the wider community.

There is sort of a way. It should at least narrow things down for you to see which areas you need to visit.

If you press H, then click on your achievements and then choose Explorer it should list the meta zones that you have ‘completed’. From there you can at least deduce which region you need to go back to to finish things up. It’s not exactly what you’re looking for, but I believe that it’s as close as you’re going to get.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Explorer

Pretty sure he meant staff, since that’s what they’d all been discussing in the thread

The air attunement/lightning attack on the staff will hit multiple foes helping to thin down the adds.

Obtaining a Legendary should require Legendary effort.

Should it take you 4-6 months or more to obtain a Legendary? God yes.

Will I enjoy every single minute of the 1000+ hours of dynamic events that I might need to do to get that first legendary? Yes! Yes! A thousand times yes!

I’m looking forward to what they come up with!! I’d like to say that I can’t wait, but I’m only sitting at level 64 with 22% map completion, so I guess that I definitely can LOL

BTW, I remember at one point they’d been hinting that they’d add DE’s and just let users stumble upon them rather than announcing them – which would be both amazing and difficult — difficult because it would be very easy to imagine that there had been no new content… Perhaps a nice compromise would be to have a blurb/patch notes that X number of Events/DE Meta chains had been added and then we could search for them around Tyria?

Which do you guys think would be better?

I can give you directions from the norn starting area:

At level 2 when you arrive in the (unphased) world turn around on the path, walk up the sligh incline, there will be an enormous glowing circle a couple of feet up the path.

Walk through the glowing circle into Hoelbrak.

Press M for Map – you should see a purple symbol on the map. The purple marking will be around the mid-left of the map from where you where you are. That is the asura Gate (it’s called peeta’s gate or something like that). You can get to it by walking through the Trade commons area. There will be npcs to ask for directions if you get lost.

Once you walk through the Asura gate in Hoelbrak it will take you to an area in Lion’s Arch (another city) with other gates to every other major city. One of those gates (the one with Charr standing in front of it) will take you to your friend’s major city.

PS – to find you friend more easily ask them to go through their portal to meet you in the Charr city then you can just look on your map for their dot and follow it to them.

PPS – One of you may have to right click their portrait and choose “join in” if you’re separated onto different overflow shards.

You can bind it in the keybindings menu under Options.

Also, your leaping is only slowed when you’re in combat – is the area around your ability bar glowing slightly or is it completely clear? If it has a glow/effect around it then the game is still registering you as in combat (perhaps you still have a condition on you), if not then whether your weapon is sheathed or unsheathed will make no difference to your jumping

I’m sorry, I haven’t noticed this.

Any profession can spec in a way that the Necromancer that you mentioned did, it’s just that most don’t go into a dungeon environment with the idea that they might have to play differently than they usually do or trait different skills. Ie for tanking specifcally — Rogues/Mesmer/Engineer = evasion tanking, Necromancer/Ranger = pet tanking, Elementalist/Warrior/Guardian = More traditional get smacked in the face tanking (as long as they’ve got both vit+toughness and not just one or the other)

The point of ‘getting rid of the trinity’ wasn’t that people wouldn’t be in supportive roles, it was that ANY profession could take on the various supportive roles throughout the encounter and that one profession wouldn’t be the only profession that could take on those roles. You could go into AC with 5 mesmers and as long as they traited differently each could take on the role of supporting the party to make a highly successful run.

Are some combinations more obvious — such as Healing support being a Guardian or Elementalist? Sure. But does that make it impossible for a Mesmer to cast themselves into a supportive healing role? No, but they could never be a dedicated healer or even a dedicated healer/condition remover – they should adjusting their playstyle to what the group needs right then. And that is how ArenaNet detroyed the trinity.

No profession can be a dedicated Tank, Healer, DPS without sacrificing the entire group’s overal performance for their own preferred playstyle. It sounds like none of you were willing to take on a supportive role (other than “tank”) in the run with the 3 warrior/1theif/1engineer set up.

Were you changing out your abilites and weapons to be better prepared for the fights? Were you planning out your pulls if you didn’t — because since none of you were willing (or able) to go support you were making it about 50 times more difficult for yourselves. Did you discuss how you could change things around to complete the fights within the group? Dungeons are intended to be hard content that challenges you to be a better player – one more able to react to a changing environment.

Will the community will be able to come up with ideal profession/skill/trait combos at some point for speed runs of all of the dungeons? Sure — but does that make one profession a “tank” or “healer” no, it really doesn’t since 1) most players don’t play at that level & 2) It will be just as easy (if not as fast) to do it with a different combination of professions.

You can’t know for certain, but they won’t be simply banned without an investigation (which is why it takes so long to get the scammers and goldsellers banned as well I think).

If they’re just standing there, not moving or using a heal, using the same ability over and over then they’re probably a botter.

Real players will move unpredictably and heal themselves at least once if they’re getting attacked. Even bad players. Observe their behaviour for a couple of minutes and if you genuinely think that they’re botting then report them, if you’re still uncertain then leave them alone.

Oh no! Say it isn’t so!

I just ran off after listening to them :-O

rushes off to make another character

What Deunan Sanis said.

An exploit is doing something repeatedly for xp or other profit, you only did it once. Report it via bug report with a screenshot.

I think that it is working as intended – since the herb nodes drop lower level mats sometimes as well. I use Darksteel harvesting tools in that area.

I’m not sure that I’d classify it as happening all the time, but yeah, it is a pain when it happens because it’s a lot harder to fight as a mesmer when you can’t move away from the things attacking you because you’re stuck in terrain.

I’ve experienced it about three times in 70ish hours of play. When it happens I can usually get unstuck by hopping/dodging and phase retreating a couple of times. The last time though I did get stuck tight — it was in a small rock almost exactly the same size as my Asura in some cave in the Harathi Hinterlands, it looked like only my hair was sticking out.

I wish I’d had someone with me to take screenshots of the ‘hairy’ rock it would have been pretty funny actually.